Fall TV check-in: what's been canceled and what's earned a full season

Andre Braugher and Andy Samberg star in Fox's cop/workplace comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." The show has won over many critics (including this one) and enough fans for Fox to give it a full season pick-up. Photo by Eddy Chen/Fox.

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Only four new episodes of "Parks and Recreation" (with Amy Poehler) will air the rest of this year -- in back-to-back installments on Nov. 14 and 21. After that, the show doesn't return until Jan. 9. Photo by Colleen Hayes/NBC.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- With NBC's cancellation of "Ironside" and "Welcome to the Family" last week, that brings this season's new show body count up to four. (Following ABC's "Lucky 7" and CBS' "We Are Men" for those of you keeping track at home.)

Plenty of other shows are finding success, though. Six -- NBC's "The Blacklist," Fox's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," ABC's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and CBS' "Mom," "The Millers" and "The Crazy Ones" -- have already been picked up for a full season, and one -- Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" -- has even been renewed for season two already.

Four others -- ABC's "Back in the Game," "Super Fun Night," "The Goldbergs" and "Trophy Wife" -- have had extra episodes ordered. This means that the network is somewhat optimistic about the shows; however, there is no guarantee that the extra episodes (two to three for each show) will actually be produced.

I didn't mind NBC's cancellation news as "Welcome to the Family" was absolutely awful and "Ironside" was completely forgettable. But there was other news announced that same day that I'm much less thrilled about: "Parks and Recreation" is essentially going on hiatus until the new year.

It will have back-to-back episodes Nov. 14 and 21, then be gone until Jan. 9, when it returns at 8:30 p.m. for its 100th episode (following "Community," which has an hour-long premiere Jan. 2). Filling the slot in its absence is a variety of not-great things, including a repeat of "The Voice" this week, an "SNL" Halloween special, a Thanksgiving football game, two episodes of "The Sing-Off" and a "The Sound of Music Live" broadcast Dec. 5.

Network series premiere: "Dracula," 10 p.m. Friday, NBC (Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as the titular vampire in 19th century London, posing as an American inventor, who has plans for revenge on the descendents of those who turned him).

Of note: The band Imagine Dragons appears on "Impractical Jokers," 10 p.m. Thursday, truTV; the knockout rounds begin on "The Voice," 8 p.m. Monday, NBC; "River Monsters: Unhooked" searches for the Loch Ness monster in a special enhanced episode, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Animal Planet; "The X Factor" chooses its Top 12, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Fox (Tune in to see if Danese's Colton Pack and his Simon Cowell-created country boy band, Restless Road, make the cut); the chefs cater a Halloween party for "Glee's" Lea Michele on "Top Chef," 10 p.m. Wednesday, Bravo.

W.Va. alert: The Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings from St. Marys look into mysterious creatures in Appalachia on the series "Mountain Monsters," premiering 10 p.m. Sunday on Animal Planet. (The series already aired this summer on Destination America, which like Animal Planet, is owned by Discovery).